Long, Walker and Tekin spent a month preparing for the competition, gathering information and advice from numerous Kellogg professors and students.

“Our lack of experience came up as a disadvantage compared to other schools which have continuously sent teams to the competition in the past years,” said Tekin, who helped organize and led the team. “However, we learned a lot, and we are looking forward to getting better results next year. Overall, we did better than average. For the bond trading case, we printed out huge tables of bid/ask values instead of making interactive excel sheets. This let us react faster to market changes, and we were among top teams in that category.”